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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Ben Quinn and Rowena Mason

Former student of suspended Reform official reopens bullying case against Cambridge University

Dr James Orr gestures with both hands while speaking at a clear podium.
The student believes Dr James Orr’s (pictured) account of the case given to the Financial Times is in conflict with what the university had told them. Photograph: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy stock photo/Alamy Live News

A former student of James Orr who was found to have been bullied by the suspended senior Reform UK figure is reopening a case against the University of Cambridge, after apparent discrepancies emerged over the university’s handling of the incident.

The former student alleges that the academic’s claim not to have been disciplined contradicts assurances they say they received from the institution.

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